Adult Team Challenges (ATC)

GMHA Spring Horse Trials Regional (Area 1) Adult Team Challenge

Area 1 Adult Rider Program Members are automatically entered!  If you do not want to participate, notify the Area 1 Adult Rider Program Coordinator prior to the cutoff date for team selection.

Team Selection

• Put together your own team of friends and/or barn mates
• Randomly selected by the Area 1 Adult Rider Program Coordinator (evenly between divisions, amateurs and professionals)

Requirements:

• All team members must be Area 1 Adult Rider Program members
• Teams may include a minimum of 3 or a maximum of 4 riders competing at any level.
• Riders entered with more than one horse may participate on more than one team but only as one member on a team
• Three scores will count, allowing one score to be dropped. An elimination will add 1,000 points to the score but will keep the team in the competition.
• Prizes will be awarded for Teams placing 1st – 3rd and ribbons will be awarded to eighth place.
  • First place will receive embroidered coolers
  • Second place embroidered dressage pads
  • Third place gift certificates

2019 Area 1 Adult Team Challenge Competitions

• GMHA Spring Horse Trials – June 1-2, 2019
  • GMHA ATC TEAMS 2019 – CHANGES CAN BE MADE UP TIL NOON ON 5/31/19
    • Riders listed as Z Spares will be added to teams with scratches prior to the start of dressage and will be done in the order listed
  • GMHA ADULT TEAM CHALLENGE RESULTS ARE IN:
    • First Place – Grenier Team with Barbara Fitch, Andrea Gagnon, Ann Grenier, Megan Tardiff
    • Second Place -Honey Badgers with Missy Alaimo, Julie Howard, Katie Murphy, Linnea Ackerman
    • Third Place – Team C with Mary Bielfield, Barbara Hill, Alana Mahoney, Karen McColom
    • Fourth Place – Henderson Team with Nancy Henderson, Kylie Lyman (Gran Corazon BF), Chelsea Sprague, Shannon Wallman-Hatch
    • Fifth Place – AEL Team with Kim Bowers, Alison Eastman-Lawler, Amy Goodnow, Laurie Schiffer (Contefino Grande)
    • Sixth Place – Tory Team with Jennifer Eddy, Lily Stewart, Diane Thompson, Victoria Thompson
    • Seventh Place – Team E with Ann Archibald, Kate Homan (Q-Tip), Andrea Manley, Emily Van Gemeren
    • Eighth Place – Horze Whisperers with James Foley, Debbie MacConnel, Kaitlyn Sutherland (Jack Be Nimble), Sarah Noble (Glendevon’s Man About Town)

• NEXT TEAM CHALLENGE – Town Hill Horse Trials – August 23-25, 2019

If you have questions, contact Suzanne Adams @ adultriders@area1usea.org

USEA National Adult Team Challenge (ATC)

The USEA Adult Team Challenges have been generously sponsored by the Chronicle of the Horse for more than 20 years. The Challenges have given adult riders not competing at the highest levels of the sport to compete in a friendly team competition.  In previous years the Challenges were held annually in different locations (Eastern, Central and Western) around the United States.  For Adult Riders that have participated in the events, they have always been an exciting way to team up with fellow adult riders in your Area to compete nationally.

Unlike our Regional Adult Team Challenge program where we mix levels to field teams, the National ATC requires Areas to field a team all competing at the same level (Beginner Novice Team, Novice Team, Training Team, Preliminary Team).

If you are entered in the AECs, you may also participate on a National ATC team.

Qualifications for Entry into the USEA Adult Team Championships (National)

• The qualifying period for each horse and rider pair is March 29, 2017 – August 20, 2018
• Horses and riders must be members/registered with the USEA at the time of gaining qualifications, and during the USEA Adult Team Championships.
• All riders must be 22 years of age or older (born in or before 1996) and a member of the Area 1 Adult Rider Program
• Closing dates will be consistent with the USEA American Eventing Championships
• Each horse and rider pair must have three cross-country rounds with no jumping penalties at recognized USEA horse trials at the ATC level that they wish to compete. None of the qualifying cross-country rides may include dangerous riding penalties.
• Each Area can have up to eight teams of four riders at the USEA Adult Team Championship.
• All teams should be coordinated through the Area Adult Rider Coordinator (adultriders@area1usea.org)
• Mixed Area teams are allowed and encouraged. All horse and rider pairs without a full team of 3-4 members must be identified by the Area Adult Rider Coordinator  (adultriders@area1usea.org) as qualified and willing to compete, and submitted to the USEA for inclusion on a mixed team

Area 1 National ATC Voucher program

• If you are a competing in the National ATC Championships, you may be qualified to receive up to $250 reimbursement for travel expenses

Additional Resources

• American Eventing Championships (AEC)
• National Adult Team Championships